Chapter 4 Running Your Library
About Cleaning Tape Drives
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Details on exporting cleaning cartridges include:
• You must have access to the library’s I/E station and the operator
panel to export cleaning cartridges.
• You can only export cartridges if empty I/E station slots are
available.
You need to provide the following information in the
Export Cleaning
Media
screens to export cleaning media:
•
Media
— The tape cartridges that you want to export.
The screen includes information about the number of empty I/E station
slots in the library. The number of cleaning cartridges you can export is
limited to the number of empty I/E station slots.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select
Operations > Cleaning Media > Export
.
• From the operator panel, select
Operations > Export Cleaning Media
.
For step-by-step procedures, see the library’s online Help. To access the
online Help system, click the Help icon at the top right of the web client
or operator panel user interface.
Manually Cleaning Tape
Drives
4
The
Clean Drive
screens allow administrative users to manually clean tape
drives.
If you have at least one cleaning slot configured (see
Configuring
Cleaning Slots
on page 71), and you are using the web client, you can
choose to use a cleaning tape from either a configured cleaning slot or the
Note:
You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a
barcode in the
Search
text box. Use an asterisk (*) to search
with wildcards. You can also sort the list by clicking on
columns with bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location
column heading sorts the list by location coordinates.
Note:
Be sure to unload the tape drive before attempting to clean it.
If the tape drive is loaded with a cartridge, it will not available
for this operation.
